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Moon Rise

January 4, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Did you ever see the full moon rise? I can’t remember ever watching a moonrise before my neighbor, Jill, told us about it last summer. Standing out on long pier on a clear evening, we oohed and aahed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, Moonrise, Time

He changed, he just changed

October 30, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

It is curious that Jesus says salvation has come to Zacchaeus’ house, ”because he too is a son of Abraham.” It isn’t because Zacchaeus gave away half his belongings and a whole lot of money … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Change, Jesus, Zacchaeus

Small Voices

November 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

It always comes back to this, as Mary Oliver wrote. Nature, the power of its voice. It was the grass that caught my eye, as does a twinkle of light in the dark. In the state park, just past the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, nature, seasons

Change – Want it

October 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

SERMON TEXTS Psalm 8 and Mark 10:2-16 See below for a video version of this sermon “Change” by Rainer Maria Rilke Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Change, Rilke, virus.

Reversal Wisdom

March 21, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

The YouTube video follows the text While the story we heard from John this morning, does not appear in the other gospels, one of it’s sentences does and is clearly a preserved Jesus saying. Here … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Change, dying, Resistance

Read the Seasons

August 26, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“Now Rabia, this is the time to write.” I say it with a mock sternness, unsure if she can discern humor. She looks back at me with what I judge to be pools of affection in her baby brown eyes, blond … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, reading the signs, Trump propaganda

2020, Finally!

January 1, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

2020. Wow! There were so many strategic plans named 2020. Colleges, school boards, hospitals, businesses, even the village of Oswego, not to mention the Association for Strategic Planning, all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: 2020, Change, strategic planning

The Comfort of Trees

August 14, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

The scenery surrounding where I live has shifted from a gnarly grandmother oak, flanked by two vibrant Japanese maple children, to a basilica of ash and locust trees in their prime – ones that would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, chaos, Eternity

June 22, 2019 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

Thirty-Eight Years a Priest and Thirty-Eight Years of Sobriety: How I failed at both by Cameron Miller … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, Priesthood, Sobriety

Ah, the Seasons!

January 9, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

If it were mid-summer, a cloudless blue sky with the lake sparkling diamonds of morning light, and the only thing a body wanted to do was sit still and not move, it could be a warning sign of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, seasons, writing

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